WASHINGTON — The White House said Monday it was weighing whether to
release photographs of Osama bin Laden's corpse amid calls from some key
lawmakers to do so to prove the Al-Qaeda chief is truly dead.

"We are going to do everything we can to make sure that nobody has
any basis to try to deny that we got Osama bin Laden," President Barack
Obama's gruff anti-terror adviser, John Brennan, told reporters.

"And so, therefore, the releasing of information, and whether that
includes photographs -- this is something to be determined," said
Brennan, who hunted the Al-Qaeda mastermind for 15 years.

His comments came as top lawmaker warned Washington may have to
release photographs of Osama, killed in a daring weekend US special
forces raid on his fortified compound in the Pakistan city of
Abbottabad.

"It may be necessary to release the pictures -- as gruesome as they
undoubtedly will be, because he's been shot in the head -- to quell any
doubts that this somehow is a ruse that the American government has
carried out," said Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joseph
Lieberman.